The following are the effects and functions of ginger:

1, ginger is the traditional treatment of nausea, vomiting Chinese medicine, "vomiting family of holy medicine" reputation.

The nausea caused by gastrointestinal discomfort, oral odor and other discomforts, can be solved in the morning with a piece of ginger. Folk with eating ginger to prevent motion sickness, seasickness, or paste the inner gate point, have obvious effect.

2, appetizer spleen to promote appetite.

In the hot summer, or the cause of certain diseases, the human body saliva, gastric juice secretion will be reduced, thus affecting the appetite, if you eat a few slices of ginger before meals, can stimulate saliva, gastric juice and digestive juices secretion, increase gastrointestinal peristalsis, enhance appetite. This is what people often say "winter eat radish summer eat ginger", "rice is not fragrant eat ginger" reason.

3, cooling and refreshing, in the heat when there is excitement, sweating cooling, refreshing effect.

The general summer heat manifested as dizziness, palpitations, chest tightness and nausea, etc. patients, appropriate drink ginger soup is very beneficial. Chinese traditional Chinese medicine to prevent heatstroke - the human Dan contains ginger ingredients, its role is to strengthen the stomach, refreshing, wake up the brain.

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Basic Information:

Leaf blade lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, glabrous, sessile; ligule membranous. Total pedicel up to 25 cm; spikes globose; bracts ovate, light green or margins yellowish, apically spinulose. Calyx tube ca. 1 cm; corolla yellowish green, lobes lanceolate; central lobe of labellum oblong-obovate.

Ginger is not propagated by seed, but by asexual reproduction with ginger cubes, so it has no main root and is a shallow-rooted crop. After planting the ginger block, several adventitious roots occur from the stem of the young shoots, on which several small lateral roots occur. After entering the vigorous growth period can also occur from the ginger mother and child ginger on a number of fleshy roots, these fleshy roots also have a certain absorption capacity. The stem of ginger is divided into above ground stem and underground stem two kinds.

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